I have changed the deadlines for the poll:Albums: January 31 at midnight CSTSongs: February 15 at midnight CSTArtists: March 15 at midnight CST

We are doing three lists: albums, songs, and individual artists. Deadline to submit is December 31 at midnight CST. Please post your lists in this thread.

For artists:1. We are listing individuals, not full bands, so any woman is eligible2. If you can't decide which members of a band with multiple women you want to represent the band, feel free to list them together on the same rank. I'll figure out how to handle this information in the presentation3. Since we are looking at individual artists, remember to consider work across all their projects4. The artist list needs a minimum of 25 and has a maximum of 100 (though you can naturally list more, it will just be cut off at 100)

For songs:1. Any song by a solo woman or a band predominantly featuring women2. Any song featuring a woman on lead vocals3. If you're not sure something is eligible, ask (for example of a border case, I'm going to say "Monster" by Kanye West counts, as I feel like many people view it as Nicki Minaj's finest moment, and I would totally vote for just Nicki's verse)4. The song list requires a minimum of 50 and has a maximum of 250

For albums:1. Any album by a solo woman or a band predominantly featuring women2. Any album featuring notable songwriting contributions from a woman/women within the band (so, I'll consider Fleetwood Mac's Rumours eligible since 7 of 11 songs were written by women while an 8th featured contribution by all band members)3. If you're not sure, ask4. The album list requires a minimum of 25 and has a maximum of 100

Let me know if you have questions or any issues with the rules as laid out above.

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In most cases it's easy to pick one member of a band, usually the lead singer. My main doubt is still with Diana Ross and Beyoncé. If I vote for their whole career does that mean I should not vote for The Supremes and Destiny's Child? My suggestion is to always pick one member and vote like this:

bonnielaurel wrote:In most cases it's easy to pick one member of a band, usually the lead singer. My main doubt is still with Diana Ross and Beyoncé. If I vote for their whole career does that mean I should not vote for The Supremes and Destiny's Child? My suggestion is to always pick one member and vote like this:

That way we can vote for solo artists and their contribution to a band at the same time, and avoid overlaps.

I changed the rules to remove the all-girl group section. So, yeah, if you want to vote for the Ronettes, just vote for Veronica Bennett, and Beyonce can therefore represent both Beyonce and Destiny's Child. So the artist list is now entirely individuals.

prosecutorgodot wrote:For Sleater-Kinney, do we vote for Carrie, Corin and Janet individually, or together? Same question applies to groups like Fleetwood Mac, Heart and ABBA.

Honestly, if you're going to be giving them the same amount of credit and it will just be taking up extra space on the list, keep them on the same rank. Still list them as individuals, but do something like:5. Carrie, Corin and Janet (Sleater-Kinney)

I'll figure out how to combine this information in the final results; likely, I'll just give them a shared rank as the group. If we do have issues in a few lists, I'll just ask if whoever made that list is fine with another solution. I think the main thing to watch out for is people like Carrie Brownstein, who has both Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag; would people have a problem with listing Sleater-Kinney collectively and making a slight note towards the individual member's other acts?

BleuPanda wrote:I think the main thing to watch out for is people like Carrie Brownstein, who has both Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag; would people have a problem with listing Sleater-Kinney collectively and making a slight note towards the individual member's other acts?

I don't really have an answer to that question, but I do think Sleater-Kinney raises an interesting point. The Supremes might have had a main star in Dianna Ross and this goes for quite a few groups, but a band like Sleater-Kinney never put anyone center-stage. That really really is a group effort and it's even hard sometimes to say who is responsible for what.

The most borderline case in my list is probably Moon Duo. In the end I did include them because...well, mainly because I wanted to. Sanae Yamada does constitute 50 % of the band, provides backing vocals in the tracks I included and her keyboard jams are one of the defining factors of the band.

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Unfortunately, I'm not sure I'll have time to submit songs/albums lists, but I wanted to make sure I submitted a list of some of my most beloved artists. I just based this off the song points I have in my spreadsheet and then deducted points for artists that "shared" a lot of the credit for their respective bands. The results aren't perfect (obviously artists with larger discographies benefited greatly from this), but they are a pretty good representation of my personal favorites. Even with a list of 140 artists, I still needed to leave off a lot of artists I really like.

Edit: BleuPanda, I just noticed that I somehow deleted a few artists when I transferred my list. Off the top of my head, I think I had Joanna Newsom somewhere in the eighties, but I don't see her anymore. I'll need to revisit/edit this when I have more time...

Putting together this list while spending time with hundreds of female-fronted songs that I love has been an incredibly rewarding experience. All of the songs are predominantly sung by women. I decided to exclude duets as that feels like a different category to me, but I did include songs that feature brief vocals by men.

Spotify playlist below (and links to the two songs that are not on Spotify).

If you're also interested to paricipate in The Best Movies Directed by Women - poll (or The best tv-series -poll). Now it's to time to say it here.Sorry for spamming but I think the voters of Women in Music poll may be also interested in about this movie poll too.

OK, so here is my artists list, hoping I didn’t forget anyone.Some are pretty hard to rank though, LCD Soundsystem is one of my favorite band ever, but how big is Nancy Whang’s influence in the music ? Same for D’arcy Wretzky and the Smashing Pumpkins, since it would seem that Billy Corgan pretty much played everything besides the drums on Siamese Dreams.

It’s also hard to find information on session musicians aside from the legendary Carol Kaye (not in the sidemen aisle of the Hall of Fame yet ???).

And yes, I have ranked the Sleater-Kinney ladies, and think Savages’ drummer deserves slightly more credit than the others because she is just astonishing live.